Bonfire of the humanities : television, subliteracy, and long-term memory loss / David Marc ; forewo...
Bonfire of the humanities : television, subliteracy, and long-term memory loss / David Marc ; forewo...
Bonfire of the humanities : television, subliteracy, and long-term memory loss / David Marc ; foreword by Susan J. Douglas.
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[Syracuse, NY] : Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N302.2345/41
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Susan J. Douglas -- 1. Chosen by Television: A Viewer in the City -- 2. Literacy: Love It or Leave It -- 3. Mass Memory: The Past in the Age of Television -- 4. Culture Without Context -- 5. The Emergence of Television Criticism, 1920 to 1988 -- 6. Eight Meditations on Couch Potato Stasis...
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Publisher
[Syracuse, NY] : Syracuse University Press, 1995.
Edition
1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
1995.
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Summary
The inaugural volume in The Television Series focuses on the relationship between the rise of the multi-media environment - television and electronic media - and the decline of the humanities in academia, the changing role of print literacy, and the disintegration of historical consciousness. In analyzing the decline of the humanities on college ca...
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Bonfire of the humanities : television, subliteracy, and long-term memory loss / David Marc ; foreword by Susan J. Douglas.
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The television series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-158) and index.
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N302.2345/41
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74VMxmDD6AMM
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ISBN
0815604637 (pbk.)
9780815603214 (alk. paper)
0815603215 (alk. paper)
9780815604631 (pbk.)
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302.23450973
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991002620639702626
